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Adventure indie game Follow the meaning launched in 2024 from developer hiking-mind-studio and publisher second-maze. It has 1,022 Steam reviews with 94% positive ratings, and its $4.99 launch price positions it as a budget pick.
Overview
Follow the meaning is a 2024 Adventure game developed by HiKing Mind Studio and published by Second Maze. On Steam it has gathered 974 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer HiKing Mind Studio with publisher Second Maze is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 29,000 to 68,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Follow the meaning can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
974
Positive
94%
Steam appid
2720280
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.029K to 68K
units (median: 49K)
≈ $83K to $194K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 50 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Follow the meaning at roughly 29,000 to 68,000 copies, with a median around 49,000, derived from its 974 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $139K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
6 observed days · window low $4.99Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
AdventureIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Follow the meaning sold?
- indielist estimates Follow the meaning has sold between 29,220 and 68,180 units (median 48,700), derived from its 974 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Follow the meaning?
- Follow the meaning was developed by HiKing Mind Studio and published by Second Maze.
- Who published Follow the meaning?
- Follow the meaning was published by Second Maze, developed by HiKing Mind Studio. See Second Maze's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Follow the meaning released?
- Follow the meaning was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Follow the meaning have on Steam?
- Follow the meaning has 974 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is Follow the meaning worth playing?
- Steam players rate Follow the meaning 94% positive across 974 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Follow the meaning can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Raft, Subnautica, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, HiKing Mind Studio's other releases and Second Maze's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Follow the meaning sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Follow the meaning page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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